[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10330]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

  (Mr. JEFFRIES asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, more than 3 million Americans have been 
left behind by the failure to renew unemployment insurance. These 
individuals live in urban America, in suburban America, and in rural 
America. They live in blue States and they live in red States. They are 
simply Americans in need.
  As a result of the callousness of some in this Chamber, they have 
been put in great economic jeopardy, and we have cost the economy more 
than $5 billion. We should be extending a helping hand to these 
individuals, but instead we have slapped them in the face in a manner 
that is disrespectful of the compassion of the American people.
  It is time to do the right thing and to renew unemployment insurance 
so that we can rescue those Americans left behind on the battlefield of 
the Great Recession.

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